2010
data documentary
single-channel HD video
running time: 12 mins

The Terroir Table was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for their show “How Wine Became Modern.” This piece, created in collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro, formed the entrance gallery for the rest of the exhibition. It featured nineteen different vineyards distributed all around the world. Each vineyard paired a bottle of wine with a soil sample from ground in which it was grown. These more atmospheric qualities of wine-making are combined with metrics and statistics used by winemakers to describe the properties of grapevine roots, the chemical composition of the soil, and the state of the climate. Additionally, a real- time weather feed from each of the vineyards is present in the form of an LED display. This piece demonstrates how the affective and atmospheric aspects of wine-making, as embodied in the concept of Terroir, have a highly technical underpinning. It can be imagined as a new form of cartography that allows comparisons across numerous spatially distinct vineyards through numerous forms of measurement, disciplinary languages, and media.

[PROJECTS]

EXHIBITION

11.11.2010 - 17.04.2011
How Wine Became Modern
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
San Francisco, USA

TEAM

Kumar Atre ( DS+R )
Robert Gerard Pietrusko